English novelist Matt Whyman once enjoyed a quiet writer's life in the countryside, until his career wife Emma discovered the existence of a pig said to fit in a handbag. After seeing a few ...(Read More)

By no means unimportant, side dishes are what turn an entrée into a meal. Along with some frankly gorgeous full color photographs, this cookbook includes more than 100 suggestions for inspired side ...(Read More)

"[Mary] Robison could work for a food or drug packager: she squeezes dire warnings into tiny spaces. Her new novel, at a 166 pages, broken into 225 numbered chapters, recounts an unkempt marriage ...(Read More)

Famously kidnapped at age six, Kick Lannigan was trained as a marksman, lock picker, escape artist, and bomb maker by her abductor, and could not return to the life of the average young girl after ...(Read More)

In 2003, Michael Schaffer and his wife drove to a rural shelter and adopted a runty, emaciated, dreadlocked Saint Bernard named Murphy. Vowing to treat their pet as a pet, they found themselves ...(Read More)

An ideal pattern and project book for beginning stitchers 7 and up, One Stitch at a Time presents easy instructions, full-sized patterns, and a mix-and-match project planner to let you choose ...(Read More)

Prohibition, Al Capone, the scandals of the Harding administration, jazz singers, seismic shifts in manners and morals, all capped off by Black Tuesday—these are just a few facets of the tumultuous ...(Read More)

Build a miniature zoetrope and watch still pictures seemingly come to life; make a model of an M.C. Escher–like "impossible triangle"; spin four different discs that reveal various effects, all with ...(Read More)

An essential resource that explains organic food—what it is and how to enjoy it—this is the kind of cookbook that's also fun to read and full of interesting information, compiled by a former editor ...(Read More)